Californication as a pejorative was a culmination of sentiments known in the 1940s, typified by Stewart Holbrook, author and Oregonian columnist, who campaigned through the fictitious James G. Blaine Society against development and unchecked population growth.
So if you push California and Fornicate together and remove some of the letters in the middle you get the word Californicate. To the more puritanical and censoriously minded, the word represents the idea that California is a place of exploitation, decadence and loose morals.
The name Talladega is derived from a Muscogee (Creek) Native American word Tvlvtēke, from the Muscogee etvlwa, meaning "town", and vtēke, or "border" – "Border Town" – a town indicating its location on the boundary between the lands of the Creek tribe and those of the Cherokee and Chickasaw.
1900, shortening of wienerwurst (1874, American English), from German Wiener "of Vienna" (from Wien; see Vienna) + Wurst "sausage" (see wurst). Colloquial wienie is attested by 1911 (see weenie).
The people of Vienna (Wien), Austria, point to the term "wiener" to prove their claim as the birthplace of the hot dog. As it turns out, it is likely that the North American hot dog comes from a widespread common European sausage brought here by butchers of several nationalities.
You might call your favorite backyard cookout food a hot dog, but it's also known as a frankfurter or a wiener. You're probably not thinking of Strauss waltzes and cream-topped tortes as you spread the mustard and relish on your hot dog, but in German, wiener simply means Viennese.
The name Daytona originates from the United States of America and is derived from the words Day and Town. It is closely tied to the modern city of Daytona Beach, located in the state of Florida.
The bobby truck, a familiar sight in spring, usually collects bobby (unweaned male) calves from pens at the farm gate, to be transported to the freezing works for slaughter. Bobby calves got their name because in the 1930s, they were sold for one shilling – a 'bob'.
By the time the area became part of the United States, the county was divided between the Creek Indians, who claimed the territory south of the Native American village of Talladega, and the Cherokee Indians, who lived north of Talladega.
Californication is a portmanteau of California and fornication, appearing in Time on May 6, 1966 and written about on August 21, 1972, additionally seen on bumper stickers in the U.S. states of Idaho, Washington, Colorado, Oregon, Oklahoma, and Texas.
Historically, the "Black Betty" of the title may refer to the nickname given to a number of objects: a bottle of whiskey, a whip, or a penitentiary transfer wagon. However, in more modern song references, the term "Black Betty" alludes to a fast car or motorcycle.
Heifers are female cows who have not yet given birth to a calf. Farmers can raise heifers for dairy or for meat. In the 1830s, heifer, which is pronounced "HEFF-er," was first used as slang for "woman" or "girl." Since then, it took on the meaning of a female who is obese.
The term "cowlick" comes from the way a calf's hair swirls after being licked by its mother. Cowlick hair is very common but varies greatly in how noticeable it can be. They're often less visible if located on your crown and hidden by longer hair.
Its name refers to Daytona Beach, Florida, where racing flourished in the early 20th century. It has been manufactured by Rolex since 1963 in four distinct generations (or series); the second series was introduced in 1988, the third in 2000 and the fourth in 2023.
Dayton is a masculine name of British origin and means “ditch town.” Dayton comes from the Old English monikers Distone and Deighton and is a popular name for towns throughout England. These would usually be settlements with a ditch or moat surrounding them for protection. There's also a city called Dayton in Ohio.
The name originally chosen for the series was National Stock Car Racing Association; when it was pointed out that that name was already in use by a rival sanctioning body, "National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing", proposed by mechanic Red Vogt, was selected as the organization's name.
Nowadays, in German-speaking countries, except Austria, hot dog sausages are called Wiener or Wiener Würstchen (Würstchen means "little sausage"), to differentiate them from the original pork-only mixture from Frankfurt.
The German name for the city, Wien – of which Vienna is a Latinized form – is unrelated, deriving from the River Wien (compare Steyr, Enns, and Krems, which all take their names from the rivers whose mouths they lie at).
Germany. In Germany, the term Schnitzel means cutlets in general, not just breaded, fried ones. Schnitzel Wiener Art ('Viennese style schnitzel') is a pounded, breaded, and fried cutlet, more often made of pork than of veal.
